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SPIRITUAL 
by the 


Most Reverend F. H. DU VERNET, D. D., 
late Archbishop of Caledonia, B. C., and 
Metropolitan of British Columbia 
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Contents: 
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III. Creative Energy__........- 17 
IV. The Bigger Whole... 21 
Vee NGCIO“UVIING Aa ae le 24 
VI. Experiments in Mental Messages 29 
VII. Telepathic Testimonies... 37 


IX. The Communion of the Mind 47 


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XI. The Psychology of Resting 54 
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THE Society oF THE NAZARENE 
Mountain Lakes, New Jersey 
COPYRIGHT 1925 BY THE S&S. N. 


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INTRODUCTION 


The title of this little book expresses adequately, 
we feel, the nature of its contents. 

The present popularity of Radio for purposes of 
instruction and entertainment is a remarkable phenom- 
enon, the full significance of which we have hardly . 
yet grasped. 

History repeats itself. “‘First that which is natural 
and then that which is spiritual’ (1. Corinth. 15:46) 
seems to be the prescribed order in which true knowl- 
edge is unfolded. 

Butler’s famous “Analogy of Religion’’ does not 
precede but follows the advance of science during the 
earlier part of the eighteenth century. It also served 
as a corrective (not necessarily a rebuke) to the rather 
excessive zeal of the Wesley preachers and _ other 
leaders of the contemporary Evangelical Revival. 

Henry Drummond, towards the end of the nine- 
teenth century, made a similar contribution through his 
religio-biological studies and more especially through 
his “Ascent of Man” and his still more celebrated 
‘Natural Law in the Spiritual World.’ An evangelical 
himself and a close personal friend of D. L. Moody, 


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Drummond nevertheless possessed the truly scientific 
mind and instead of taking up the mental attitude 
known today as “fundamentalist,’’ he actually vindi- 
cated his ideals of Gospel Evangelism by a scholarly 
appeal to Natural Science and more especially to the 
(then) recently developed doctrine of Evolution. His 
less known book, “‘The New Evangelism,” is also well 
worthy of study in this connection. 

So today, when there is an extraordinary revival of 
interest in the Christian Healing message and when 
itinerant evangelists can fill a tent with seven thousand 
people nightly for five consecutive weeks or build a 
magnificent tabernacle on the Pacific Coast and install 
a colossal Radio equipment for carrying the healing ~ 
message far and wide, it behooves the more conserva- 
tive Christian philosopher to sit down quietly and 
analyze these marvelous spiritual forces which are 
being released. He will seek to understand them, to 
correlate them, to apply them wisely and constructive- 
ly. Nor will he allow his first blaze of enthusiasm 
over his discoveries to disturb his equilibrium or cause 
him to abandon impulsively the ‘“‘old ways.’ The old 
Books (whether Bible or Prayer Book) will glow with 
fresh inspiration as the new light shines upon their 
pages; the old sacraments will convey new potentials 
of spiritual energy; the old lights and colors and vest- 


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ments will symbolize the “beauty of holiness’’ more 
appropriately today than they ever did—and less me- 
chanically. Simple Christian rites, sacramentally ad- 
ministered—such as Baptism or the Laying-on of 
Hands (whether for Ordination, Confirmation or Heal- 
ing )—will become vehicles of Divine Power adequate 
to the complex needs of the busy days in which we 
live. 

“Spiritual Radio’’ is vindicating the work of the. 
great Mystics of Christian history; it is demonstrating 
that the “Interior Life’’ is not limited to the seclusion 
of the cloister but produces a robust type of Christian 
manhood and womanhood that makes for leadership 
and achievement in the marvelous age in which our 
lot is cast. 

All great epochs in human development have had 
their special prophets and seers, and the new Renais- 
sance faintly indicated above has already been heralded 
by such men as Archdeacon Basil Wilberforce of Eng- 
land and Archbishop Frederic H. Du Vernet of Canada. 
The following brief essays from the pen of the latter 
are indeed fragmentary; but they reflect the true spirit 
of the pioneer in the realm of spiritual discovery and 
we esteem it no small privilege to offer to the Christian 
public the first tiny volume of basic material on the 
subject of Spiritual Radio. 


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Some of these essays appeared in the columns of the 
“Canadian Churchman” and we here acknowledge with 
gratitude the kind permission of the Editor of that 
paper to reprint them in booklet form. Some have 
also appeared in the pages of ‘The Nazarene’ and 
some were sent to us by Mrs. F. H. Du Vernet shortly 
after the death of the Archbishop, in response to a 
request from the undersigned. The essay entitled 
‘Radio Mind” appeared in the Radio Journal. 

A larger volume is in preparation, which will con- 
tain an account of the life and work of Archbishop 
Du Vernet and which is being written by the Rev. 
Robert Connell, M. A., rector of St. Saviour’s Church, 
Victoria, British Columbia. 

I should like to mention here that my own interest 
in this subject dates back several years to a course in 
Therapeutic Psychology which | took at The Weltmer 
Institute, Nevada, Missouri. 

My preceptor, Professor Sidney A. Weltmer, D.S.T., 
was tremendously interested in the problems of Tel- 
epathy, and in his book, ““The Healing Hand,’ he has 
devoted several chapters to this subject. Jnter alia he 
says: In September, 1907, my associates and [| started 
an experimental study of telepathy, in which I was 
usually the sender of the messages and in which a 
varying number of people in different parts of the 


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world—sometimes as many as eight thousand—each 
Thursday night endeavored to receive the message 
which I sent. This experiment has been continued 
almost without interruption since that date, and while 
it may not have resulted in the conclusive evidence 
which we expected to quickly reap when we began 
our work, as to the reality of multiple transmission 
and reception with one sender, it still has taught us a 
great many lessons and has given me unusual oppor- . 
tunities for experiencing telepathic phenomena.” 
(page 79). Further on he says: “If the theory of 
thought being a vibration is true, and if thought takes 
its place among the imponderable agents, heat, ‘light, 
sound and electricity, which are modes of motion, then 
we will see at once the difficulty of bringing into 
practical use this faculty of the unconscious mind, or 
of demonstrating to the unthinking the fact of its 
existence. | 

‘Let me illustrate: In wireless telegraphy instru- 
ments have been so delicately constructed that they 
can throw into vibration that rarefied form of matter 
known as ether, in which electricity manifests its 
activities, and instruments have been so _ delicately 
constructed that they will respond to the vibrations 
sent out by the first instrument. The one instrument 
is called the transmitter, the other the receiver. It is 


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clear that some force must go from the transmitter to 
the receiver. It is easy to demonstrate that such a 
force exists, that it does its work; but how much 
further on could we go in the investigation if there 
were no code of signals to enable us to interpret the 
vibrations? * * * Until, therefore, some means 
of interpretation shall have been discovered, thought- 
transference will have no practical importance save 
in the healing of disease. 

“Tf the time shall ever come when some code of 
interpretation in thought-transference analagous to a 
code of interpretation in telegraphy shall by common 
consent become known to men, then, and not ‘till then, 
can thought-transference be of any importance in send- 
ing messages. It is of importance in the healing of 
disease by establishing the same vibrations in the pas- 
sive mind that are held by the positive mind.’ Those 
interested in Professor Weltmer’s experiments and 
conclusions should read the book above quoted, es- 
pecially chapters 6, 7, 8 and 29. This book (“The 
Healing Hand’’) can be obtained from the Nazarene 
Press. Price $1.25 postpaid. 

Some will ask why a book on Spiritual Radio should 
be published by The Society of The Nazarene. We 
reply that a part of our object is to study and apply 
the teachings of Jesus. We regard Him as the Su- 


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preme Master and Exponent of spiritual forces and it is 
part of the Church’s duty and privilege to learn the 
fundamental principles upon which Christ’s work 
depended. To quote Prof. Weltmer once more, “He 
seemed to have a clear view of it all; no matter at 
what point He listened. He seemed to get the har- 
monies out of those places; no matter to what He 
turned He seemed to be able to read its history from - 
the beginning. 

‘“‘He understood the processes, mental, spiritual and 
physical of the mustard seed when He told you if 
your faith were like it you could do as it does that is, 
you could do all that you were intended to do. 

“We cannot conceive for a moment that we can do 
these things without preparation. But the world is 
being prepared for it. Wherever the Christian religion 
has been preached all of these things, these wonders 
of the present time have been foreshadowed in that 
teaching. Paul foreshadows it when he says, ““Now 
we see through a glass darkly, but then face to face.”’ 

Swedenborg saw these things and developed from 
them his famous doctrine of Correspondences and the 
recent revival of interest in his books and teachings is 
significant. It is simply a new emphasis upon sacra- 


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mental philosophy—that every outward and _ visible 
achievement of science adumbrates some inward and 
invisible spiritual reality. 

Archbishop Du Vernet has applied his principle to 
the modern development of electrical science which is 
popularly known by the name of “Radio” and the 
reader will see from a careful reading of the following 
essays that he has furnished the key by which we shall 
eventually solve the problem above stated. 

A. J. GAYNER BANKS, 
Director, Society of The Nazarene. 
Mountain Lakes, N. J., 
Septuagesima Sunday, 1925. 


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Chapter I. 
DIVINE HEALING 


All healing is divine. This is true whether medicine, 
surgery, suggestion, faith or prayer be used to assist. 
God exercises His healing energy in accordance with 
the laws of the human body, mind and spirit, and not 
otherwise. He never contradicts the laws of His own 
creation. 

Comparatively few as yet realize that it is the sub- 
conscious mind which controls the involuntary actions 
of all the vital organs, such as the heart, the lungs, the 
stomach, the liver, etc: This is done through the 
medium of the nervous system and muscular reaction. 
Mind energy acts upon vital energy. Vital energy 
acts upon nerve energy. Nerve energy acts upon 
muscular energy. This is the chain of life. 

The subconscious mind is the storage battery of 
latent energy. This latent energy, which is spiritual, 
mental and vital, is divine. It is the releasing of this 
latent energy which causes bodily healing. How to 
release this latent energy and apply it either to the 
body as a whole, through the law of diffusion, or to 
a particular part of the body through the law of locali- 


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zation, requires some intelligent understanding of the 
subconscious mind, which is the law of suggestion. 

An idea floating on the surface of the mind is not 
a suggestion, though it may be the starting point for 
one. Only when an idea is buried in the subconscious 
mind does it become a suggestion, for when once there 
it is seized by the subconscious activities of the soul 
and vitalized. How can a thought on the surface be 
made an energy in the depths of the mind? With 
some people this is best done in quiet moments by 
meditation while relaxing. With others a mental shock 
is needed to sink the idea. With others again an over- 
whelming emotion, such as religious ecstasy, is 
required to drive it deep. A suggestion given just 
before passing into natural or ‘artificial sleep is certain 
to work most powerfully because then the subconscious 
mind is in the ascendancy. We classify suggestion 
according to its method of application. A suggestion 
given in any way by ourselves to ourselves is auto- 
suggestion, and when given by another to us. is hetero- 
suggestion. Oral suggestion is when the idea to be 
suggested is embodied in a sentence and spoken either 
as a firm command or as a repeated affirmation. 

Visible suggestion is when some outward sign or 
symbol is used to bring the idea vividly before the 


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mind. Medicine is often more effective as a symbol 
than as a substance. 

The laying on of hands, anointing with oil, the see- 
ing of cures, etc., are visible suggestions. Telepathic 
suggestion is when the thought is transferred without 
word or sign from the conscious mind of one person 
to the subconscious mind of the other. Distance is no 
obstacle to this. Strange as it may seem, a suggestion 
of healing sent by radio-mind is sometimes more effec- . 
tive when the patient is unaware of it, especially if he 
is inclined to be skeptical about it. Many a dying 
infant has had his vital energy revived by a mother’s 
love working through telepathic communion. 

The next generation may understand the healing 
power in radio-mind, but even this generation may 
realize something of the energy in collective telepathic 
suggestion. When ten thousand people concentrate 
their minds on the healing of one person, the psycho- 
dynamic effect must be tremendous. Prayer for the 
sick is not an outgrown superstition. Absent treat- 
ment is not a foolish fad. 

The suggestion of faith is when an ordinary sugges- 
tion is reinforced by the absolute confidence that the 
desired result will be effectually obtained. The sug- 
gestion of religion is when this faith is founded upon 
belief in God. This is the most powerful suggestion 


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known to modern science because it brings the sub- 
conscious mind into touch with the Infinite so that the 
latent energy of the soul is quckened into ‘‘newness of 
life."’ St. Paul says: “The spirit of life in Christ Jesus 
has made me free from the law of sin and death.”’ 

In every case of bodily healing there is always 
an element of suggestion to release the latent energy 
of the soul. However, this energy may be assisted 
from without by diet, medicine, surgery, or nursing, 
and however it may be intensified from within by sug- 
gestion, faith, prayer or intercommunion of spirit, it 
is this energy which heals and this energy is divine. 
The mists of prejudice and superstition will roll away 
when we come to realize that it is in the subconscious 
mind that the finite and the infinite meet and mingle. 


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Chapter II. 
CREATIVE THOUGHT 


Every thought unless it is trivial carries with it an 
associated feeling. When a great thought has revolv- 
ing round it a glowing emotion there is produced a 
powerful motive. When the will releases this power- - 
ful motive in a definite choice there results energetic 
action which produces something which never existed 
before. This is what is meant by creative thought. 

In mechanics creative thought produces helpful 
inventions; in art it produces beautiful pictures, and 
in morals it produces noble lives. 

The scientific way of transforming character is by 
the renewing of the mind. Modern psychology has 
established beyond dispute this law of the human mind. 
The life follows the thought. If a man’thinks impure 
thoughts and holds these in his mind, it is only a 
question of time and opportunity before he becomes 
unclean in his life. 

If a man thinks kind thoughts, noble thoughts, good 
thoughts and holds these in his mind, he will uncon- 
sciously grow like his thoughts—kind and noble and 
good. ° 


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New Thoughts and New Life 

Instead of the old thought of selfish regard which 
has been dominating his life in the past let him put into 
his mind the new thought of brotherly love as taught 
by Christ and inspired by His Spirit. 

Instead of the old thought of fear and terror which 
plays such havoc with the soul, let him put into his 
mind the new thought of trust and hope. Instead of 
the old thought of envy, hatred and malice, which will 
poison any disposition, let him put into his mind the 
new thought of kindness and goodwill as taught by 
Christ and inspired by His Spirit. Instead of the old 
thought of enervating depression and fancied disease 
let him put into his mind the new thought of invigor- | 
ating cheerfulness and vitalizing faith in God. | 

It is by these and such like new thoughts that a 
man’s mind is renewed and his character is trans- 
formed. St. Paul says: “Be ye transformed by the 
renewing of your mind.” 

Psychological Law Always Works 

This psychological law is as constant and as certain 
in its operation as is the law of gravitation. The life 
follows the thought. The meaning of the Greek word 
for repentance is a change of mind. This is something 
far more vital than a mere sentimental feeling. What 


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we think we become. Thought is creative. Change 
the mind and you change the man. 


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Chapter III. 


CREATIVE ENERGY 

Religion must have a background of philosophy. 
More depends upon the nature of this philosophy than 
we think. Two persons may recite the same creed, 
but they will mean something entirely different if their 
system of thought be not the same. Those who are 
so fond of saying: “Leave philosophy alone and be 
practical,’ fail to realize that our most practical doings 
are influenced by our philosophy of life. We should 
not be disturbed if we find that with passing years 
our philosophy is changing. All has not been irrevoc- 
ably fixed in the distant past. Fresh knowledge of 
the universe is ever being added to our present store, 
and the more we know of the universe the more we 
shall know of God, for God can only be known through 
His activities in the universe, ourselves included. If 
God were to cease His activity, He would cease to be 
known. The trouble with many regular churchgoers 
is that their philosophy is not worthy of their religion. 
They think of God in terms of matter. They limit 
Him in size with the three dimensions. They locate 
Him above in some distant star. They place Him 


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upon some golden throne. They are utterly at a 
loss to know how to relate God to the universe and the 
universe to.God. In religion they may be orthodox 
Christians, but in philosophy they are antiquated 
materialists. [They are alarmed about the progress of 
science because they think that science will rob them 
of their God. Undoubtedly it will if they cannot grasp 
the philosophical thought that the ultimate reality of 
the universe is Infinite Energy. 3 
While it is right for us to hold firmly the distinction 
between spirit and matter, yet unless we can see how 
each approaches the other, spirit permeating matter and 
matter manifesting spirit, we shall never be able to 
understand either what is spirit or what is matter. It 
is in Invisible Energy that we find spirit and matter 
blending together. Science has recently discovered 
that all matter can be reduced to electronic activity, 
negative electrons revolving round positive electrons. 
Here we have the grossness of the material removed and 
in its place a refinement almost spiritual. But what is 
back of this electronic activity? Surely it is Energy 
in the form which we call radiant energy which per- 
vades everything which exists objectively throughout 
the entire universe. But back of this radiant energy 
there is evidently Mind Energy because everywhere 
and in all objective things there are unmistakable evi- 


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dences of intelligent activity and directing wisdom. 

In certain creatures we find vital energy which seems 
to be a blending of radiant energy and mind energy. 
Life and consciousness seem to go together. The power 
of intelligent choice based upon pure memory and 
reasoned reflection seems to increase as we rise higher 
in the scale of conscious life until we discover moral 
energy manifesting itself in righteousness, goodness 
and love. 

As we watch radiant energy rising into vital energy, 
and vital energy rising into mental energy and mental 
energy rising into moral energy, we are brought face 
to face with human personality, but since the fountain 
cannot rise higher than its source we begin to realize 
that there is the Infinite Energy, the Universal Person- 
ality, from which flows all the energy in the universe, 
whether it be radiant, vital, mental or moral. 

This Infinite energy works in accordance with the 
law of radiant vibration, the law of vital rhythm, and 
the law of spiritual harmony. These three laws are 
essentially one. It is this Infinite Energy which gives 
unity to the whole universe. It is this Universal Per- 
sonality which is the source of our individual person- 
alities. God breathed into matter the breath of life 
and man became a living soul. 

The philosophy of energy will no longer permit us 


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to believe in a six-foot God seated upon some golden 
throne in some far-off star. God is the Infinite Energy 
which is the ultimate reality of the universe. God is 
in ceaseless activity, ever creating with wisdom and 
goodness. As St. Paul says: “There is one God and 
Father of all, who is over all and pervades all, and is 
in all.” 

The Mind Energy of God can penetrate our sub- 
conscious mind and influence our daily behaviour. 
The Spirit of Christ, who is the supreme revelation of 
God, can permeate our inmost soul and transform our 
character. If we will only observe the law of vital 
rhythm and spiritual harmony we can come into tune 
with the God of Redeeming Love and Infinite Energy 
and we can enter into fellowship with one another. 

What could be more practical than this? 


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Chapter IV. 
THE BIGGER WHOLE 


The key to the solution of nearly every human 
problem lies in the right adjustment of the individual 
to the bigger whole. No human being can exist as 
an independent unit but, nevertheless, many are trying 
to live self-centered lives, forgetful of the bigger whole. 
There is a sense in which each individual is truly the 
centre of his own universe, because he is obliged to 
view the external world from the standpoint of his own 
experience, but he must, at the same time, be wise 
enough to consider himself from the standpoint of 
the bigger whole. The individual only finds himself | 
as he discovers that he is called upon to be a minis- 
tering member of society. He need not be appalled 
at the thought of his smallness in contrast with the 
vast universe. Small though he may be in comparison, 
he is vital to the bigger whole, and essential to the 
manifestation of God. 

The individual to be a true individual must have a 
cause bigger than himself to which he freely and fully 
devotes himself. Loyalty to this cause of the bigger 
whole is the unifying principle of his life. If he is 


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disloyal to this bigger cause he will be a traitor to his 
higher self. The individual finds the bigger whole 
first in his family, then in his group, his lodge, his 
church, his community, his nation, and last of all in 
humanity at large. Loyalty to his family is the first 
thing to lift him out of his self-centered life, but this 
does not go far enough. Loyalty to his community 
and his nation makes him a true citizen. Loyalty to 
humanity elevates him above all narrow provincialism | 
and religious bigotry. Loyalty to the universal Spirit 
of God completes the uplift out of selfishness: “My 
utmost for the highest.” 

It is right for the individual to make himself as effi- 
cient as possible, but this is not for himself alone; it is 
that he may the better serve the bigger cause. It is 
right for the workman to be loyal to his union, but 
at the same time he ought to remember the bigger 
whole. It is right for the capitalist to safeguard his 
wealth, but he must at the same time devote his wealth 
to a bigger cause than himself or he will be a blighting 
curse. Whether the responsibility lies with capital or 
with labor, class warfare is a social crime. 

It is right for the nation to look after its own interests 
and organize its own groups, but at the same time it 
must be loyal to the bigger world of which it is called 
to be a ministering member. 


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The essence of Christianity is the Spirit of Christ. ° 
The Son of Man came not to be ministered unto, but 
to minister, and gave His life a ransom for many. In- 
spired by this spirit we can rise out of our natural self- 
ishness, but we find conventional morality with its 
negative commands— Don’t do this, don’t do that’’— 
quite inadequate to solve our many perplexing problems 
of duty. Here, then, is a simple rule, applicable under 
all the circumstances of modern life, for the moral 
guidance of both the individual, the group, the com- 
munity, and the nation: “Be loyal to the bigger 
whole.’ 


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Chapter V. 


RADIO-MIND 

The greatest field of undiscovered knowledge is the 
subconscious mind. After several years of earnest 
study, I have come to the conclusion that while our ~ 
conscious minds tend to individualize us our subcon-— 
scious minds tend to unite us. We are not isolated 
units. We are all members of one vast mental com- 
plex. Slowly we are realizing our mental union with 
the Universal Mind. 

In the experiments in radio-mind which my daughter 
and I have been recently making with remarkable suc- 
cess, we have employed a simple mechanical contri- 
vance consisting of a long pencil, a metal bob weighing 
about a quarter of an ounce, and a string not more 
than eight inches long between where it is tied to the 
end of the pencil and where it is attached to the bob. 
Doubtless this little pendulum will meet with much 
the same ridicule from the unthinking as Coue’s form- 
ula has done, but it serves a similar purpose only in 
exactly the reverse order. Whereas the repeating of 
the formula is to get a thought into the subconscious 
mind the swinging of the pendulum is to get a thought 


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out of the subconscious mind and register it with 
scientific accuracy. A proof of telepathy to be scien- 
tific must be capable of being repeated at will and 
verified as often as wished. Our conscious mind is not 
able to bring up a thought from the depths of our sub- 
conscious soul every time we will to do so. This is 
because of the barrier of the brain. The brain is the 
organ of adaptation to physical environment. So long 
as we have to live in a material body and deal with 
external objects it is a good thing that our brain acts 
like a watchman at the gate refusing admission into 
our conscious mind to the millions of irrelevant 
thoughts surging up from the subconscious depths of 
our being. We should be driven to distraction if it 
were not for the blessed barrier of the brain. 

It may be asked how can the little pendulum record 
unconscious thoughts. The answer is because of the 
most intimate relationship between the subconscious 
mind and the sympathetic nervous system which in 
turn controls the involuntary actions of our vital 
organs and twitching muscles. I fail to see at present 
how it would be possible to get a scientific proof of 
telepathy, capable of repetition at will, without some 
mechanical contrivance to register the unconscious 
activities of the subconscious mind. 

In our experience we found that the progressive 


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lengthening of the intervening distance, first by yards, 
then by rods, and then by miles, did not make the 
slightest difference. From five hundred miles away 
the message came in just as strongly as from five feet 
away. Space is only relative to a material body in 
motion, and mind energy is a spiritual force. Where it 
acts there it is. 

As a psychologist, | have not only been making 
original experiments, but I have been critically observ- 
ing these experiments and so have something to 
announce to the scientific world, though | feel that I 
am just on the threshold of the mystery of the mind. 

As to the Chevreul pendulum, I think every high 
school should use this to demonstrate the first principle 
of psychology, the law of ideo-motor action. If the 
boy is to make a success in life it is well for him to 
see with his eyes how an idea in his mind tends to work 
itself out in his actions, unless inhibited by a counter 
suggestion. 

In experimenting in radio-mind according to our 
method, the first step is for each of the two co-operat- 
ing persons to practise with the pendulum alone, until 
each becomes convinced that it will respond instantly 
to his thought of motion. Let him practise with the 
bob hanging half an inch above an index card with 
the letters of the alphabet phonetically grouped so as 


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to economize space in a little less than a semi-circle, 
keeping the bob at the center of the circle. He will be 
amazed at the way the pendulum will spell out the 
word as he thinks it letter by letter. 

The second step is for the two persons prepared by 
practice to now adopt the principle of division of labor, 
one to do the thinking and the other the recording. 
The one holding the pendulum should be most careful 
to see that it is swinging to and fro under the control 
of his own mind before he becomes passively receptive. 
During this experiment the two persons should be 
standing side by side. If the word thought of by the 
one, letter by letter, is correctly recorded by the other’s 
pendulum there has been thought transference, from 
the conscious mind of the one to the subconscious mind 
of the other. 

The third step is for these two persons to put as 
many miles as they like between them and repeat the 
experiment. The only difficulty now is to get coinci- 
dence in time. 

I have found by experience that it is well to make 
use of the law of rhythm, timing my concentrations to 
accord with the swing of the pendulum. Knowing that 
what the will is to the conscious mind the imagination 
is to the subconscious mind, | have found it helpful for 
each operator to visualize the other. Perhaps this is 


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the greatest contribution I have to make to the cause 
of Science. The supposed barrier of space between 
two minds can be effectually annihilated by the power 
of the imagination working through the fundamental 
union of all souls in the realm of the subconscious 
world. . 

The object of these experiments is not to cause a 
passing merriment, but to give a scientific demonstra- 
tion of the psychic truth which lies at the foundation 
of the Fellowship of the Spirit and the Communion of 
the Saints. 


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_ Chapter VI. 
EXPERIMENTS IN MENTAL MESSAGES 


In these days when people have grown so familiar 
with the radio-phone that the sound of the human 
voice carried for thousands of miles on the wings of 
the electric wave no longer excites wonder, it may not 
seem far fetched to make the assertion that there has 
recently been demonstrated with scientific accuracy 
the fact that thought can be conveyed from one living 
person to another living person at a distance without 
the intervention of any powerful electric battery, but 
simply through mental radiation, the transmitter of 
the mental energy being the conscious mind of one 
person, and the receiver being the sub-conscious mind 
of the other. 

Two friends are talking sympathetically together 
when one makes a special reference to something im- 
portant, and the other replies: “How strange, I was 
thinking of that very thing at the same moment.” This 
is an example of thought transference through mental 
radiation. | 

A lonely son in a foreign country becomes con- 
scious that his mother in the home land is praying for 


30 SP ER BE UoATE. CRA ao 


him. He is so impressed with the fact that he records 
the exact time and writes about it, and in due course 
the fact is verified. This is another example of 
thought transference through mental radiation, but in 
this case the two persons are far separated in body 
though united in spirit. 
Chevreul’s Pendulum 

There is no doubt that unconscious mental radiation 
is going on amongst us all, but how to prove this is 
the difficulty. , 

In my lectures on psychology I have long made use 
of Chevreul’s pendulum to demonstrate the truth of 
that fundamental law of the human mind named by 
Dr. Carpenter fifty years ago, the law of ideo-motor 
action. This pendulum was invented by Chevreul, 
who was born in 1786, so that it is not new. It con- 
sists of a stick, a string and a bob. The stick may be 
a long pencil, the bob a latch key, with the string about 
eight inches in length, tied at one end to the pencil and 
atthe other end to the key. To demonstrate the law 
of ideo-motor action the operator holds one end of 
the pencil in his hand, keeping his arm away from his 
side, and allowing the bob to hang freely over a paper 
on which is the design of a cross surrounded by a 
circle. Then he thinks the idea of movement while 
fixing his eye upon the bob, and the pendulum at once 


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begins to externalize this idea in the appropriate move- 
ment, whether it be right and left, or round the circle. 
Astonishing Results 

While I have used this pendulum hundreds of times 
to demonstrate this law that the idea of movement 
produces the movement, and that the will cannot stop 
this movement provided the thought of movement is 
kept active, it only recently occurred to me to make 
use of this pendulum to scientifically test whether the 
thought of movement in one person's conscious mind 
could be so transferred to the sub-conscious mind of 
another person at a distance as to cause the nerve re- 
action necessary to swing the pendulum in the direc- 
tion chosen by the first person but unknown to the 
second person. It has been as a trained psychologist 
with the purpose of promoting scientific knowledge 
that [| have lately been experimenting along this line 
with astonishing results. 

A piece of cardboard was made so as to stand 
upright on a table. On this was printed with spaced © 
letters the word ““R A DIO.” The person acting 
as the human receiver stands at the table with the bob 
on a line with the letters but a few inches away. He 
_ starts the pendulum swinging towards the letters to 
and fro, not by direct muscular action but by the 

energy of his thought manifesting itself outwardly. The 


32 SPT RoAT UsAsE SRA ae 


person acting as the human transmitter, while the 
pendulum is swaying freely, unknown to his co-opera- 
tor, concentrates his mind upon a certain letter, and 
almost instantly the pendulum will begin to swing 
towards the chosen letter, provided the two minds are 
thoroughly in tune. 

Miles Apart 

I have repeated this experiment again and again 
under varying circumstances so as to secure scientific 
accuracy. On the first occasion my co-operator and 
I stood only three feet apart, then followed a series of 
trials, at opposite ends of the same room, in different 
rooms, one downstairs and the other upstairs, one 
indoors and the other outdoors with the intervening 
space gradually extended, first by rods, then by miles, 
until it became plainly evident that distance made no 
difference, because mind energy, while it is in space 
at the same time, transcends space, for where mind 
energy acts there it is, and space is only relativity. 

It is impossible in a brief article to transcribe my 
note-book, which is open to inspection. Not only was 
the intervening distance progressively lengthened, but 
the difficulty of the message was progressively in- 
creased from one letter to words of four letters. 

At a very early stage, when receiving on one occa- 
sion, | failed to keep my mind receptive, allowing it 


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during the process to focus on a certain letter, imme- 

diately the pendulum began to vacillate, swinging first 

to the letter in my friend’s mind, who was at a distance, 

and then to the one unwittingly thought of by me. 
Concentration 

On the first occasion when two letters instead of 
one, unknown to me, were chosen by my friend at a 
distance for the experiment, | could tell the instant 
when the concentration of mind changed from the 
first letter to the next, though | had to wait a minute 
or two before the oscillating pendulum could reach 
the second letter. 

It was at a point three miles distant from one base 
that I decided for the first time to send a word of 
three letters, and transmitted the word “Rod.” Re- 
turning to the receiving station | found that my co- 
operator had not only written down the word “‘Rod,”’ 
but had added the note, ““Ten beats of the pendulum 
on the letter ‘R’ and eight on the letter ‘O,’ *’ which 
was exactly right, as in order to concentrate strongly, 
I had repeated the ‘Swing to the ‘R’”’ ten times, and 
“Swing to the ‘O’”’ eight times, not taking quite so 
long over the ‘D.’ 

Through the Montreal Daily Star, I, therefore, ven- 
tured to announce to the world that on December | I th, 
at 11:50 A. M., I transmitted through three miles of 


34 S PY Rev T OU Ask eR apie O 


space a definite message with scientific accuracy, not 
by radiophone, but by radio-mind. 
Interrupted Thought 

It was not long after this when I was at a distant 
spot on a quiet country road that | decided for the first 
time, unknown to my friend, to send a word of four 
letters, and transmitted “RO AD.” On my return 
to the receiving station | found written down a word 
of four letters, it was true, but it was ““ R AID.” 
This was apparently our first failure in a long series of 
experiments. On reflection, however, I recalled the 
fact that after | had transmitted the letter “R’’ and 
was about to send “‘O”’ a motor car had appeared com- 
ing towards me on the narrow road while I was stand- 
ing with my watch in my hand and that I had debated 
in my mind whether to stop the process or go on, and 
that [| had decided to go on, never ceasing during this 
reasoning repeating silently first the ““O”’ refrain, then 
the “A.’’ I also remembered that the car stopped a 
hundred yards ahead of me just before I reached the 
‘“‘D” refrain. Instead, then, of the record ‘‘R AID” 
denoting a failure, it was a most valuable scientific 
proof that the mind energy must be active and con- 
centrated, and that no muttered words without this 
can avail. The pendulum was evidently more or less 
out of mind control during the middle of the word. 


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In theory, lengthy messages could be spelled out by 
the swinging pendulum, but in practice it would be 
very foolish to attempt this, for such long concentra- 
tion of mind would be most injurious to the health. 

Mind and Energy 

We have collected already sufficient evidence for our 
purpose, which is to give a scientific demonstration of 
the fact of thought transference through mental 
radiation. 

Each link in the chain must be clearly distinguished. 
First, there is the conscious mind. Secondly, there is 
the sub-conscious mind, which is the storage battery of 
mind energy. Thirdly, there is the sub-conscious 
mind's intimate correlate, the sympathetic nervous sys- 
tem. Fourthly, there are the motor-nerves and the 
muscles. At one end of the chain there is the intelli- 
gent choice of conscious thought, which is spiritual. 
At the other end, there is the swinging pendulum, 
which is material. There has been a transmutation of 
energy, mind energy acting upon nerve energy, and 
nerve energy acting upon muscular energy. 

It seems a far cry from the swinging of a pendulum 
for scientific purposes to the thrilling story of the 
mother in Canada who. one night during the war 
started up out of sleep and told her husband that she 
had seen her darling boy in France falling in flames 


36 SPIRE UALR AD EO 


from his aeroplane, but the psychological and neuro- 
logical elements involved are practically the same in 
both cases, only in the latter there was a mighty uprush 
of thought and feeling from the sub-conscious to the 
conscious mind of the startled human receiver. 
Vast Possibilities 

Like all natural powers given to us by God, mental _ 
radiation may be used either for good or for evil. The 
possibilities for good are almost beyond conception. 
We are not isolated units. We are all members of 
one vast mental complex. We can radiate to others 
and receive from them in return helpful thoughts and 
kindly feelings. We can broadcast influences con- 
ducive to health and happiness; peace and prosperity. 

In the light of the scientific proof of thought trans- 
ference through mental radiation we should have no 
difficulty in believing in the efficacy of prayer and the 


possibility of thought exchange and sympathetic fel- 
lowship between the Mind of God and the Soul of 
Man. 


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Chapter VII. 
TELEPATHIC TESTIMONIES 


One result of publishing an account of my scientific 
experiments in radio-mind has been the receiving of a 
number of telepathic testimonies from far and wide. 
A classified selection of these is due to the cause of 
science. 

An Episcopal clergyman in Tacoma writes that on 
several occasions when absent from his house and 
visiting in his parish his wife by telepathy has suc- 
ceeded in getting him to call her by telephone. 

A Presbyterian minister in Calgary says that often 
when his wife has forgotten to give him a commission 
to buy something while down town she has sent him 
a thought message and he has gone to a shop and 
asked for the needed article. 

A wireless telegrapher in England testifies that sev- 
eral times he has arranged with his wife at a distance 
to write down at a pre-arranged moment the thought 
which then comes to her, and it has usually coincided 
with the thought he has sent her. 

My nephew in Ireland writes that at an inquest 
recently held near where he lives the following facts 


38 S)P. DR ICT UA a ReaD LED 


were given under oath: A father and son were in 
a boat which capsized not far from the shore. At 
that moment the wife and mother some miles from 
the spot told another son who was at home what had 
happened. This son gathered together a crew and 
arrived at the scene in time to rescue his father, but 
his brother was drowned. 

A woman in Alberta who had a son in charge of a 
machine-gun at the front had the following experience 
during the war. Whether asleep or awake at the time 
she does not know, but she found herself loading a 
machine-gun, though she knew nothing about its mech- 
anism. After she had loaded it she sat down behind 
it. Suddenly there was a sharp pang in her breast. 
She put her hand up, and as she drew it away she saw 
it was dripping with blood. Later she received word 
that her son had loaded his machine-gun, and, having 
been given command not to fire until ordered, he sat 
down behind it, and while in this position was shot in 
the breast and killed. 

A friend in Toronto, who is an earnest Christian 
woman, writes: “My brother Maurice was very ill in 
Alberta, and we were receiving daily telegrams re- 
porting progress. We heard one day that there had 
been a change for the better. That night I was awak- 
ened by feeling that he was beside my bed, saying: ‘I 


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have just come to say good-bye. I thought that I 
would say nothing about it to anyone, but in the morn- 
ing my mother said to me: ‘Maurice was in my room 
last night. I felt as though I could almost see him.’ 
Some time after this I ran across the daughter of an 
old lady with whom my brother had boarded when he 
was in a bank in a small Eastern town, and referring 
to that same eventful night, she said that her mother 
whom she was nursing was very ill. The next morn- 
ing her mother said to her, ‘Maurice was here last night 
and wanted me to go away with him.’ They had not 
then heard that my brother was ill, but a little later 
in the day the banker came to tell them that he had 
died that night.” 

I have arranged this selection of telepathic testi- 
monies in an ascending order according to the degree 
of the emotional intensity of the mind energy. As we 
analyze these experiences we see at work in them all 
the four great laws of thought transference, namely, 
relaxation of body; concentration of mind; receptivity 
of soul; communion of spirit. In all these examples 
we observe that there was communion of spirit aided 
by sympathetic relationship. There is a remarkable 
difference in the degree of receptivity as well as in the 
power of concentration. The importance of the mes- 
sage has an evident bearing on this. In the first three 


40 SPL RTT OAs aha aoe 


cases the message was trivial, in the last three it was 
tragic. 

In my telepathic experiments, while I knew that 
the message was trivial, | knew also that the scientific 
demonstration of the fact of thought radiation was pro- 
foundly important. There is nothing superstitious or 
magical about these telepathic experiences. The vast 


majority of people are slaves to the thought that the 


same body cannot be in two different places at the 
same time, but this law applies only to a material 
body, and mind energy is a spiritual entity. Where it 
acts there it is, regardless of distance in space. 

When we have indisputable proof that our friend's 
mind energy is penetrating our subconscious mind and 
influencing us, as my experiments have scientifically 
demonstrated, we are quite right in saying that we feel 
the presence of this friend. This is not a delusion. In 
very truth he is “nearer than hands and feet,’’ because 
the energy of his mind, which is the essence of his 
personality, is acting within us. 

When a material object or sound stimulates our 
optic or auditory nerve, and this nerve conveys the 
movement through a series of nerves to our physical 
brain and the vibration in our brain cells awakens our 
spiritual discernment, we say that we ‘‘see’’ this object 
or ‘hear’ this sound. Instead of the stimulus coming 


; 
: 


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from without through the physical senses it can come 
from within through the subconscious mind, especially 
when two persons are in perfect communion of spirit. 
It is possible for us to think and see and hear and feel 
mentally in complete unison with our sympathetic 
friend. Of course, it is very seldom that such perfect 
communion can be attained in this life, but there are 
various degrees leading up to this, until we enter into 
the fulness of the Fellowship of the Spirit of God. 
When St. Paul, a prisoner in Rome, wrote to the 
Colossian Christians: ‘“Though | am absent in the flesh 
yet am | with you in the spirit, joying and beholding 
your order, and the steadfastness of your faith in 
Christ,’’ he was not simply using a metaphor of speech, 
he was expressing a psychological fact. His physical 
body was in Rome, but his mind energy was in Col- 
ossae, operative in the subconscious minds of his sym- 
pathetic friends. 


42 SPIRITUAL RADIO 


Ba eas ag Chapter VU. 
UNITY OF MIND 


Recent scientific experiments in telepathy seem to 
demonstrate that there is a primitive unity between 
all minds in the realm of the subconscious world. 
There is no such thing in the universe as an absolutely 
independent individual mind. There is abundant evi- 
dence to prove that while our conscious minds tend to 
individualize us, our subconscious minds tend to unite 
us. We have yet to discover a word which will rightly 
express the relationship which exists between two 
minds which are in sympathetic harmony. We say 
that these two minds interpenetrate, and so they do, 
but the relationship is closer even than this. Water 
may be mixed with sand, but we know that each atom 
of water and each grain of sand occupy separate local- 
ities because both are material. It is different with two 
minds. They are not material units. They are in 
space, it is true, for where they act there they are, but 
at the same time they transcend space because they are 
spiritual. When two minds interpenetrate they are 
not still separate as sand and water when mixed. They 
interact in the unity of Mind Energy. 


SPIRITUAL RADIO AS. 


It is not enough to speak of our individual minds as 
parts of a larger whole. They are more than mere 
parts, they are living members of the Great Mental 
Society, but there is something more even than this. 
To our conscious minds which tend to individualize 
us we may rightly apply this term, for they are truly 
social members; but to our subconscious minds, which 
tend to unite us, we need to apply a more comprehen- 
sive term which will bring out the primitive unity of 
the indivisible Mind Energy which pervades the uni- 
verse. 

When a telegraph operator presses his key every 
open instrument in the circuit responds because of the 
unity of the electric energy. In like manner every sub-. 
conscious mind is in the circuit of the Universal Mind. 
We could know all that is going on in the Mental Uni- 
verse if we could become conscious of all that is pass- 
ing through our subconscious mind, but this is impos- 
sible because of the barrier of the brain. We live in a 
physical body and this body has a physical environ- 
ment. We must be practical and attend to the things: 
of this life. For this reason our conscious mind func- 
tions chiefly through our physical brain, which is the. 
organ of adaptation to this material world. But while 
we live in a physical body and, therefore, must attend: 
chiefly to the things of sense, we have a spiritual soul! 


4A S:\P TER ITU Awe Rea Ew 


and this soul (Greek “‘psyche’’) has a psychical en- 
vironment, and so our conscious mind, at least to a 
limited degree, can function through our subconscious 
mind, which is the organ of adaptation to the psychical 
world which surrounds us and pervades us. Att this 
point it is of the utmost importance to recognize that 
while our conscious mind can directly control our phy- 
sical brain, it can only indirectly control our subcon- 
cious mind. 

Mind Energy possesses intelligent activity and moral 
power. It is, therefore, on a much higher plane than 
radiant or electric energy, but nevertheless there is a 
very close affinity between these two forms of energy 
which both come from a Common Source. The same 
law of vibration is operative, both in electric energy 
and in mind energy. There are psychic waves of 
thought and feeling which correspond to electric waves. 
In the psychic world the law of vibration becomes the 
law of sympathetic rhythm and spiritual harmony, and 
it is only as the conscious mind makes use of this 
supreme law of mind energy that it can indirectly con- 
trol the subconscious mind. Some seem to make use 
of this law spontaneously, others only with practice. 

The unity which exists in the subconscious realm is 
a primitive unity. This is proved by the fact that 
telepathy prevails among young children, and primitive 


Soe nee POAT ES RA DEO 45. 


races before they have an intelligent understanding of 
the human mind. An infant crying in its sleep can be 
quickly calmed by a mother’s soothing thought. Long 
before the days of the radiophone a traveller in the 
Arctic regions was astonished to hear an Eskimo hum- 
ming a tune which had just become popular in London. 
Many years ago an important event, which occurred 
among the Indians of the Upper Naas River, was. 
intuitively known by some of the Indians of Met- 
lakatla on the coast, so that when the messenger ar- 
rived he found that the news was there before him. 
When General Gordon died at Khartoum the fact was: 
instantly known by some sensitive natives of Cairo. 
A sleeping mother three thousand miles away can 
easily be awakened by a rhythmic wave of thought and 
feeling from her suffering son. A mental epidemic 
can sweep across a country with amazing rapidity. A 
whole nation can be roused into united action in a 
single night, provided there is an intense emotional 
psychic wave resembling a mighty tidal wave. 
Because this unity of mind energy is a primitive 
unity, we must not in our pride of intellect, despise it. 
In reality it is by an intelligent though indirect control 
of our subconscious mind that we can come into touch 
with the Infinite. There is a beyond which is within. 
All men of genius, such as great musicians, artists, 


46 SPER PT OAC eR A Dae 


poets, inventors, prophets and preachers, draw largely 
_ for their inspiration upon their subconscious mind, but 
they do so spontaneously and it is this spontaneity 
which is the mark of their genius. Their intellect func- 
tions really through their spiritual intuitions. 

The time is rapidly coming when through a better 
knowledge of the laws of radio-mind, we can compen- 
sate for our lack of genius by drawing scientifically, 


if not spontaneously, upon our subconscious mind, 
which is the circuit of the Universal Mind, because of 


the indivisibility of the mind energy which pervades 
the universe. 


S Pal Roe ALL: RAD TO AT 


_ Chapter IX. 
THE COMMUNION OF THE MIND 


The scientific experiments which I have recently 
made in spare moments, employing a mechanical con- 
trivance to accurately record transferred mind energy, 
have thrown a flood of light upon mental communion. 

Many want to know more about the laws which 
regulate thought transference. These laws may be 
summed up in two words—concentration and recep- 
tivity, but this is too condensed a definition to be of 
practical value. 

The person transmitting thought to a distant friend 
should learn first how to concentrate his conscious 
mind upon the thought to be transmitted. He should 
next learn how to plunge this thought into the stream 
of his subconscious energy. It is his conscious mind 
which directs with intelligent choice, but it is his sub- 
conscious mind which radiates the mental energy. The 
inter-communion of spirit is in the realm of the sub- 
conscious world. Distance may separate physical 
brains but not spiritual minds which interpenetrate in 
the unity of the spirit. Let the transmitter practise 
using the power of his imagination whereby he can 


48 SOP. Df RAT UA se Anew 


annihilate space, and the power of his intuition where- 
by he can immerse himself in the stream of the univer- 
sal mind energy. For about a minute and a half, but 
not longer, he should strongly visualize his distant 
friend and firmly believe that they two are united in 
spirit. While he does this he should at the same time 
flash forth the message which he wishes to transmit. 

The person receiving should understand that the 
transferred thought invariably penetrates first his sub- 
conscious mind. Provided the transmitter has obeyed 
the laws of the mind applicable to his part the receiver 
has not the power to keep the transferred thought out 
of his subconscious mind, though the barrier of the 
brain may prevent it rising into his conscious mind. - 
This is because of the fundamental union of all minds 
in the realm of the subconscious world. Assuming 
that the receiving person wishes to become as far as 
possible conscious of the telepathic message, there are 
laws which he must observe. He must first put him- 
self into a receptive state. This is done by relaxing 
the body and focalizing the mind upon the distant 
friend. He must next by the power of intuition plunge 
himself into the stream of the universal mind energy. 

In order not to be disappointed the receiving person 
should know that there are three different ways in 
which the transferred thought may get past the barrier 


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of his brain and come into his conscious mind. These 
three ways correspond to three degrees of clearness. 
The best way is when the transferred thought, after 
penetrating the subconscious mind of the receiver, 
flashes up the next moment into his conscious mind 
with all the vividness of sense perception. This is 
usually when the thought is energized by an intense 
emotion. During the war hundreds of mothers, wives 
and sweethearts heard mentally the voice of their be- 
loved bidding them good-bye, and saw mentally the 
bleeding wound. This is the communion of the mind 
in the unity of the spirit. 

The next way is when the transferred thought, after 
penetrating the subconscious mind of the receiver, 
remains latent for a few hours or days, until it finds 
a favourable opportunity to enter his conscious mind 
through the medium of a dream. The trouble in this 
case is that there is often a mixing up of thoughts 
from different sources. Psycho-analysis is learning 
much from dreams. 

The last way is by far the most common. The trans- 
ferred thought latent in the subconscious mind of the 
receiver stirs up within him a corresponding auto- 
suggestion. Often he “wonders why he has had the 
same thought as that which his friend mentions in a 


50 SPER UA ERA 


letter. He does not realize that it came to him by 
radio-mind before the letter arrived. 

Last winter my son was lying dangerously ill in a 
hospital two hundred miles away from me. I prayed 
earnestly to God that he might be spared for the sake 
of his wife and children. As I prayed I knew with 
scientific certainty that, regardless of distance, my mind 
energy was penetrating his subconscious mind as he 
lay in the hospital very weak and highly susceptible 
to mental influence. Some months afterwards, ignor- 
ant of any co-operation on my part, he told me that 
as he lay dying and quietly sinking there suddenly 
flashed into his mind this thought, “‘] must live for 
the sake of my wife and children.’ This auto-sugges- 
tion, stimulated from afar, dropped into his subcon- 
scious mind, and there revived the latent energy of 
his soul. From that moment he began to rapidly 
recover. 

A friend, living in Toronto, was awakened one night 
from a sound sleep by the feeling of a presence in her 
room, and so strong was the impelling power that she 
got up and knelt beside her bed in a sense of awe and 
expectancy. “The spirit of truth and power’’ seemed 
to be the only thought conveyed. A few days later 
a dear friend of hers, living in the United States, wrote 
to her in reference to that same night: “I had a very 


SEER OA ER AyD. 1:0 BY 


sleepless night, so I spent the time in intercession for 
you that you might have power and strength for all 
your work.”’ ; 

The laws of thought transference are exemplified in 
these two examples. Relaxation of body. Concen- 
tration of mind. Receptivity of soul. Communion of 
spirit. Understanding these laws better, let us make 
good use of them by radiating helpful and healing 
thoughts and spreading far and wide peace and good- 
will. 


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Chapter X. Pra ie pena as 8 
IN TUNE 


When we hear stringed instruments being brought 
into tune preparatory to the production of entrancing 
music we know that this is a practical application of 
the law of vibration. When we see the radio-phone 
operator adjusting his receiving instrument so as to 
catch the special length of electric waves desired we 
know that this is a further application of the same law. 
When we investigate still more widely we begin to 
realize that back of everything which exists there is the 
ceaseless movement of vibrating energy. The more 
closely the material approaches the spiritual in its 
ethereal texture the more evident it becomes that the 
law of vibration passes imperceptibly into the law of 
spiritual harmony. 

The recent scientific experiments in thought trans- 
ference through mental radiation which have been 
made by me in spare moments throw a flood of light 
upon the law of psychic harmony. If there is to be 
successful thought transference the minds of the two 
persons engaged must be brought into tune. This is 
done partly by the power of the imagination which so 
largely controls the subconscious mind, each person 


SPIRITUAL RADIO 53 


visualizing the other; partly by the power of mind 
energy, active on the one side, passive on the other 
side, and partly by the power of sympathetic feeling. 
The best recorded examples of spontaneous thought 
transference, in contrast to scientific experiments, are 
between mother and son, husband and wife, also be- 
tween two brothers, two sisters, or two intimate 
friends. This helps to indicate how two minds are 
brought into tune. 

The law of psychic harmony pervades our whole 
religion. The vibrating Energy of God reaches its 
climax in the harmony of active Love. Intercessory 
prayer practised on psychological lines becomes in- 
tensely real. It is a thrilling experience when we know 
with scientific certainty that our mind energy is pene- 
trating the subconscious mind of our sympathetic 
friend many miles away. 

It is by visualizing God as revealed in Christ and 
concentrating our mind upon His radiating Love that 
we can best come into tune with the Infinite and 
receive inspiration from the Eternal Spirit. 


54 S PAR ET UA RA Dike 


Chapter XI. 
THE PSYCHOLOGY OF RESTING 


The tendency of our age is toward greater mental 
stress and physical strain. The scores of new inven- 
tions, such as the motorcar and the flying machine, 
are setting the pace, and it is the pace that kills. Life, 
it is true, consists of activity for a progressive purpose 
but the inward energy of living beings must be har- 
moniously adjusted to their outward environment. At 
present the vital energy of our race is not able to 
keep up with the mechanical progress of our age. 
Statistics show that high blood pressure has increased 
over forty per cent. in the last ten years. 

There is, however, one hopeful feature. The new 
science of the mind can teach us the art of resting. 
There is a close connection between the subconscious 
mind and the sympathetic nervous system. The three 
links in the vital chain are mind energy, nerve energy 
and muscular energy. Pick up this chain by the one 
end and we find that excessive muscular action causes 
exhausted nerve force, and exhausted nerve force 
produces mental fatigue. Pick up this chain by the 
other end and we discover that excessive mental 


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activity produces nervous exhaustion, and nervous 
exhaustion leads to physical breakdown. 


In seeking to counteract the tendency of this rushing 
age toward premature physical collapse, the first requi- 
site is a restful mind. To secure this it is necessary 
to drop the idea of rest deep into the subconscious 
mind. Without any effort the conscious mind must 
slowly revolve round this idea of rest to the exclusion 
of all other ideas. Muscular relaxation through the 
law of association is an aid to this process. 


Half an hour each day of systematic muscular relax- 
ation and perfect mental rest would work wonders 
with high-strung nervous people. To anyone willing 
to learn the art of resting we would say: Sit in a 
reclining chair with the body stretched out in a com- 
fortable position and the feet up. Give yourself firmly 
the repeated suggestion: “I am relaxing. All the 
muscles in my body are growing limp. My mind is 
resting. Then bring your religion into action. Rest 
in the Lord. Claim the promise of perfect peace made 
to those who stay their mind upon their God. 

Only by combining the help of both psychology and 
religion can we hope to offset the killing pace of this 
rushing age. 


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In this connection nothing could be more appro- 
priate than the words of Whittier: 


“Drop Thy still dews of quietness, 

Till all our strivings cease; 

Take from our souls the strain and stress, 
And let our ordered lives confess 

The beauty of Thy peace.”’ 


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Pee Cre ter XL. 
SLEEP OVER IT 


Unrealized wisdom is often enshrined in popular 
maxims. The advice to sleep over a matter may be 
considered wise simply because it prevents hasty 
action, but there is much more than this involved. 

Our conscious mind lies on the surface of our being, 
our subconscious mind is in the hidden depths. It is 
only when an idea in our outer mind passes into our 
inner mind that it becomes a suggestion which our 
subconscious activity endows.with living power. Be- 
fore an idea in our conscious mind can become a sug- 
gestion in our subconscious soul there are two condi- 
tions which must be fulfilled. There must be a relaxa- 
tion and there must be concentration. Effort of will 
must be laid aside and mental strain relaxed, at the 
same time the mind must dwell without distraction 
upon the one idea which is to become a suggestion. 

Our subconscious mind is the store-house of my- 
riads of forgotten memories, as well as the power- 
house of pent-up emotional energy. It never ceases 
its activity day or night, and it is in constant touch 


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with our sympathetic nervous system which controls 
the involuntary actions of our vital organs. 

The best possible time to get an idea in our con- 
scious mind into the stream of our unconscious vital 
energy is just as we are relaxing into natural sleep. 

Drop the idea of abounding health and overflowing 
happiness into your mind and sleep over it and you 
will awake in the morning feeling fresh and well, 
bright and happy. 

Drop an unsolved problem into your mind with a 
prayer for guidance and sleep over it without a care 
or worry, and in the morning it will be solved. Buried 
bits of wisdom have probably been brought together 
in the night. 

Drop a thought of the Spirit of Christ into your mind 
and sleep over it, and you will awake in the morning 
anxious to be of some service to others. 

Drop a thought of Divine Energy into your mind 
and sleep over it and you will arise strong in the 
strength which God supplies. 

The trend of contemporary psychology is towards 
the opinion that it is in the depths of the subconscious 
mind that the finite and the infinite meet. 

If this be so then we begin to dimly understand how 
all through the ages, in quiet and receptive moments, 


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whether awake or asleep, God has been able to speak 
to the souls of men. 

There is a world of wisdom in the old adage “Sleep 
over it.’ 


THE POWER TO HEAL 
By Henry B. Wilson, B. D. 


Foreword by The Right Rev. C. H. Brent, D. D., 
. Bishop of Western New York 


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WHY I BELIEVE IN, BELONG TO 
AND HEARTILY ENDORSE 
THE SOCIETY OF THE NAZARENE 


1. Because its tenets are scripturally sound and 
fully contained in the Gospel of Jesus Christ. 


2. Because its activities are a part of our Lord's 
commission to His followers. 


3. Because it seeks to work through the official 
Body of Christ’s appointing—the Church. } 


4. Because, in the work of restoring a neglected 
gift and practice, exposing error, proclaiming truth and 
arousing men's hearts to a faith so largely untried, 
organized leadership and fellowship are vitally essen- 
tial to sane and harmonious procedure, permanent 
achievement and strong endurance. 


5. Because personal experience and the testimony 
of others convinces me of the abundant benefit and 
blessing, both physical and spiritual, of the daily 
prayer, special intercessions, conference circles, month- 
ly magazines and other suggested reading, as well as 
the direct ministry of healing, which enter into the 
full program of membership in the Society of the 
Nazarene. 


PHILLIPS STANDISH GILMAN. 


Rector of St. Ann’s Church, Nashville, Tennessee, 
and Author of “The Gospel of Life.” 


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